Hola familia y amigos, welcome to a tarragon, thyme and full-fat butter flavored edition of Central America's highest rated weekly pugilistic paper, The Sunday Brunch - We are the single spear of asparagus that your waiter arrogantly informs you is the "salad of asparagus" you ordered. This week we are hitting on a few of the more pressing issues from around the sport, we'll be … [Read more...]
The Lost Opportunities of Danny Williams
by Ted Sares “It’s just a fact I enjoy fighting and since the age of eight it has been a part of me. I don’t know anything else”—Danny Williams Over the years, I have written at great length about the business of boxing rarely having a happy ending. Sometimes a good ending is within grasp but for whatever reason, the boxer fights on frustrating his or her fans. For every … [Read more...]
Wladimir Klitschko To Take on Alex Leapai — and Shannon Briggs? — On Saturday
by Johnny Walker World heavyweight champion and owner of every significant belt aside from the WBC strap vacated by his older brother Vitali, Wladimir Klitschko (61-3, 51 KOs), returns to action on the main American TV network of ESPN this weekend to take on Australian hopeful Alex Leapai....and the way things have been going, he may also have to knock out former heavyweight … [Read more...]
Veteran Heavyweights In Action This Weekend: Tony Thompson 264, vs Odlanier Solis, 255
by Johnny Walker At the age of 41, US heavyweight veteran Tony Thompson had a resurgent year in 2013, making the trip to Liverpool, the back yard of 6' 9" heavyweight giant David Price twice to stop the man many had already anointed as the successor to the world champion Klitschko brothers, at least in the UK. Thompson then decided to make a move designed to get him a … [Read more...]
Wild America: US Heavyweights Deontay Wilder and Malik Scott Look To Impress in Puerto Rico
by Johnny Walker It's not even fun anymore for the rest of us, watching American boxing fans squirm, make excuses for and even downright give up on what used to be called the sport's "glamor division." While many American boxing fans (and/or fans of American boxers) blame the Klitschko brothers for taking away what used to belong almost exclusively to them, the problem … [Read more...]